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Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Children - 2013.
Overweight and obesity prevalence varies between countries and cultures of the world. In 2013, Egypt and Costa Rica had the highest prevalence of young obese girls while Chile and Israel have the highest prevalence of young obese boys.
The information for developing this figure was taken from Ng et al., The Lancet. 2014.
